The meeting place is on IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/jgo-petiteThat's #jgo-petite on Freenode.

This competition will be just one hour. That means it starts promptly at 6:00 and ends at 7:00.

You must be in the IRC channel by 5:50 to be considered for entry.

A website for voting and submittal will be coming in the near future.

You must use 6 randomly chosen Google Image Search gifs that will be posted at contest start. They can appear anywhere in your game in any fashion. They will always be one single entity, never sprite sheets or anything of the like.

You can use whatever framework you want. In fact, the game doesn't even have to be in Java. But whatever you make must be portable to at least PC and Mac, preferably to Linux as well.

You can doctor the gifs if you'd like, they just need to remain recognizable.

Maybe, I might be going out dancing instead. I'm a bit concerned about the 1 hour timescale. Will be using Chatzilla for IRC . Note to self: 18:00GMT = 19:00BST. Oh and it's Sunday week, not this Sunday.

I'm assuming these are just 6 random images and not a sprite sheet. Probably different sizes and aspect ratios too. Is it Ok to doctor the images (e.g. resize, crop)? How about full photoshoppery, as long as the image is recognisable. I assume the images are tenously related as Google will do an image search based on keywords.

I chose gifs because then they will probably have transparency and therefore will work a little better in the context of a game.

I will be avoiding anything like a sprite sheet that is not one cohesive image.

You can doctor the images as long as they remain recognizable.

I'm not going to provide an official framework I don't think, mainly because I don't have the time. As a result, you can use whatever framework you want. Slick, PulpCore, whatever. I'll probably just use Java2D on top of my Entity system. Hopefully doing a few of these will result in a unified framework everyone can use.

Are you really concerned about this for a 1 hour game? Why not work for an hour and then change them afterwards if you like your prototype?

If people are really concerned about this, I can make 6 gifs to be used. And put them all under GPL.

Depends on whether you want to archive them online as for Java4k. I wouldn't for example like to see an applet full of Mario or Sonic images attributed to me permanently available (or any trade mark as companies have to persue infringers to maintain the trade mark).

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